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Les Miserables

by Victor Hugo

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ISBN13: 9780449300022
ISBN10: 0449300021
Condition: Standard
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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, LES MISERABLES is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, became the gospel of the poor and the oppressed.

Review:

“Some of us may have read Les Miserables back in the day, but… between Gopnik and Rose, you’ll get two introductions that will offer you all the pleasures of your college instruction with none of the pain.”

The Agony Column (trashotron.com)

From the Hardcover edition.

Review:

“[A] magnificent story… marvelously captured in this new unabridged translation by Julie Rose.”

The Denver Post

Review:

“A lively, dramatic, and wonderfully readable translation of one of the greatest 19th-century novels.”

Alison Lurie

Synopsis:

An abridged edition of the classic bestseller about a former convict's desperate struggle to outrun his past in nineteenth-century France.
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About the Author

Victor Hugo (1802-85), novelist, poet, playwright, and French national icon, is best known for two of today’s most popular world classics: Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, as well as other works, including The Toilers of the Sea and The Man Who Laughs. Hugo was elected to the Académie Française in 1841. As a statesman, he was named a Peer of France in 1845. He served in France’s National Assemblies in the Second Republic formed after the 1848 revolution, and in 1851 went into self-imposed exile upon the ascendance of Napoleon III, who restored France’s government to authoritarian rule. Hugo returned to France in 1870 after the proclamation of the Third Republic.

Julie Rose’s acclaimed translations include Alexandre Dumas’s The Knight of Maison-Rouge and Racine’s Phèdre, as well as works by Paul Virilio, Jacques Rancière, Chantal Thomas, and many others. She is a recipient of the PEN medallion for translation and the New South Wales Premier’s Translation Prize.

Adam Gopnik is the author of Paris to the Moon and Through the Children’s Gate, and editor of the Library of America anthology Americans in Paris. He writes on various subjects for The New Yorker and has recently written introductions to works by Maupassant, Balzac, Proust, and Alain-Fournier.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780449300022
Translator:
Wilbour, Charles E.
Author:
McNees
Author:
Hugo, Victor
Author:
Wilbour, Charles E.
Publisher:
Fawcett Books
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
Literature
Subject:
Continental european fiction (fictional works
Subject:
Paris (france)
Subject:
Orphans
Subject:
France Social life and customs 19th century Fiction.
Subject:
Historical fiction
Subject:
Ex-convicts
Copyright:
1961
Edition Description:
1st Ballantine Books ed.
Abridged:
Y
Publication Date:
December 1982
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
416
Dimensions:
6.86x4.16x1.13 in. .45 lbs.
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